Over the past few years a number of Perlmonks threads have dealt with problems in installing the Math::GMP distribution from CPAN. I have tried to install Math::GMP on two different OSes in the past two days: Ubuntu Linux and Darwin Mac OS X 10.3. In each case, when the 'cpan' shell got to the 'perl Makefile.PL' step, the following warning was displayed: 

    CPAN.pm: Going to build C/CH/CHIPT/Math-GMP-2.04.tar.gz
  
      Checking if your kit is complete...
      Looks good
----> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgmp  
      Writing Makefile for Math::GMP

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This has to be one of the most misleading messages I've ever seen. In each case it signified the absence of the 'libgmp3' library. The 'cpan' process continued as follows: 

  GMP.xs:4:17: gmp.h: No such file or directory
  GMP.c: In function `XS_Math__GMP_new_from_scalar':
  GMP.c:99: error: `mpz_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  GMP.c:99: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  GMP.c:99: error: for each function it appears in.)
  GMP.c:99: error: `RETVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
  GMP.c: In function `XS_Math__GMP_new_from_scalar_with_base':
  GMP.c:121: error: `mpz_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  GMP.c:121: error: `RETVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)

  [snip 100+ more lines of error messages]

  make: *** [GMP.o] Error 1
    /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
  Running make test
    Can't test without successful make
  Running make install
    make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
  Failed during this command:
    CHIPT/Math-GMP-2.04.tar.gz                   : make NO

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In the case of Ubuntu Linux, I was able to proceed once I had installed the Debian libgmp3-dev library.

There being no equivalent library that I knew of for Darwin, I had to compile libgmp from source -- which, it turned out, required that I compile libtools from source as well.

45 minutes later (!) I was ready to try to install Math-GMP again. But I then got this error message when I called make: 

  ld: /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a(mode1o.o) has local relocation entries i
+n
  non-writable section (__TEXT,__text)

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Has anyone been able to achieve better results trying to install Math::GMP on Darwin? (I should add that I'm really only interested in this because it's a prerequisite for Net::SSH::Perl.)

My Darwin configuration:

On Darwin: Perl 5.8.7 Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=7.9.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin macintosh.local 7.9.0 darwin kernel version 7.9.0: wed mar 30 20:11:17 pst 2005; root:xnuxnu-517.12.7.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-Os', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Oct 24 2005 21:19:21

Jim Keenan

In reply to Math::GMP won't install on Darwin by jkeenan1

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